Evensong Sermon Sunday, October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025
The Evensong service, and the readings assigned for today, are an antidote to the poison of anxiety.
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October 26, 2025
The Evensong service, and the readings assigned for today, are an antidote to the poison of anxiety.
October 26, 2025
Entering deeply into the parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector (Luke 18:9-14) is akin to being dropped into a corn maze, uncertain of what is the proper exit. Both protagonists, are like us, “complicated”; with a mixture of attitudes and actions, some laudable and some reprehensible. Both have done a good thing in coming to the temple to pray. But their prayers do not align with their attitudes and actions. Our liturgy models a more robust prayer – rooted in God’s love, and our call to love God and neighbour.
October 19, 2025
The parable of the widow and the unjust judge (Luke 18:1-8) and its following companion parable of the Pharisee and tax collector underline the importance and the place of perseverance and humility in prayer. But prayer doesn’t come easy. Prayer is ultimately a conversation, a relationship with God that lasts throughout our lives. Prayer should become something as natural as breathing. Something, surprisingly, as normal as daily life itself!
October 12, 2025
Drawing on today’s scripture passages, modern science and longstanding traditions like the Anglican harvest thanksgiving feast, this Harvest Thanksgiving sermon reflects on how gratitude is central to our humanity. Practicing gratitude, as exemplified by Jesus in the Eucharist (which means “thanksgiving”), and the Jewish festival of Shavuot, magnifies life’s pleasures and prevents us from taking blessings for granted. We are invited to discover the “place where our deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet” by using your unique gifts to serve others, thereby cultivating greater gratitude for God’s blessings.